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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI/SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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ISSN 0170-6233Verify ISSN ↗1522-2365Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,460 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 371 / 1936 | 80th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 95 / 254 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte is Q1 in History (rank 371 of 1936) and Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 95 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.180, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,460 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0170-6233 and its online ISSN is 1522-2365.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #619 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 88. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 81 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (41.3%), United States (15.5%) and United Kingdom (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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